By default, lxinst installs components to exploit the machine(s) used for the install.

It is possible to perform small installs using flag -s like in

And, it is possible to perform medium size installs using flag -m, as in

A small install limits the number of kvds to 4, and per-component memory to 1GiB.

A medium install limits the number of kvds to 8, but does not limit per-component memory and tries to use the default allocation policy.